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...time when I was an immigrant myself, and came to this country. I believe I am the only one in this body that ever had the opportunity to come to this country as an immigrant, except the Senator from Idaho, Mr. Gooding, who was an eight-year-old boy when he came, and the Senator from Michigan, Mr. Gouzens, who came across the line from Canada...
...handshaker's cramp since he left the White House. Yet some memorial of the President would be cherished forever. Such cards as are distributed on Pike's Peak testifying to the traveller's actual presence on the summit might be distributed in Heu of the traditional handshake. An office boy could thus dispose of a task which has become too burdensome for the first man of the land...
...however, in whom familiarity has bred the usual contempt, do not hesitate to strip these ancient institutions of the glamor which for the American at least obscures the defects. A French author, in a recent novel, accuses Oxford of all places of regarding the student "as a high school boy . . . who lives together with his fellows under a severe discipline that regulates even the hours of his going out." The student body is cynically divided into athletes and esthetes--of whom the latter are rare. No disillusionment could be more cruel if one is to retain one's faith...
...Russell William Thaw was born in 1910, five years before Thaw divorced his wife for misconduct allegedly in Germany while Thaw was interned in the Mattewan Asylum for the criminally insane in Manhattan. Thaw denies that he is the father; Evelyn Nesbit is equally firm in supporting the boy's legitimacy...
Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett: "Addressing blind men in Light House No. 1, Manhattan, I astonished the audience by saying that I had raised a boy who had been blind from the age of 2. I revealed that my protégé had lived in Boston, attended Harvard College and Law School. At the end of the speech I ordered the bandmaster to play the colors. To curious reporters I gave no further information...